FreeBSD problems..

[oniq]

I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.6.2 on my laptop. I got two partitions that I created with Partition Magic 7: The first is my main Windows 2000 partition with ~15gigs of space. The second would be where I want to install FreeBSD with about 5gigs of space. Those are both of the partitions on my 20gig hard drive. When I get to the disklabelling screen in the FreeBSD install and I try A for Auto Defaults I get: "Unable to create the root partition. Too big?" Is there a way to fix this?

 

[n0cmonkey]

This is a primary partition right?

Try creating a root partitions of say 100MB and see what happens.

 

[oniq]

I get the same thing when I try to Create. It is a primary partition.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Did you delete any previous partitions and create new ones in the FreeBSD installer (excluding the Windows partition of course)?

 

[oniq]

No, but will that destroy my current Windows partition setup or will it only create/destroy the original partition made? I already have Windows installed on it and don't want to lose all my stuff.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: oniq
No, but will that destroy my current Windows partition setup or will it only create/destroy the original partition made? I already have Windows installed on it and don't want to lose all my stuff.

Delete the non-Windows partition and recreate it through the FreeBSD installer. Dont touch the Windows partition and it *should* be fine.

 

[oniq]

Okay, I will give it a try. Be back soon 🙂 Thanks for your responses.

 

[oniq]

Okay, I'm typing this from my main PC and it worked! 🙂 Its installing now, hopefully my Windows stuff is still there (I'm sure it is, didn't touch that partition). Thanks for your help.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: oniq
Okay, I'm typing this from my main PC and it worked! 🙂 Its installing now, hopefully my Windows stuff is still there (I'm sure it is, didn't touch that partition). Thanks for your help.

Thank google.com. Found a similar problem (same error) on geocrawlers.com or something through google.

 

[oniq]

Alright, it worked. I was able to install FreeBSD (quite quickly, actually). I can't believe how much easier FreeBSD has gotten to install since 4.0 even. Just got to see if I can optimize it a bit for my laptop configuration. Thank you, and google too 🙂.